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| power according to their development; their area of activity increases and expands continuously, and they can, to | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| I give enough room within me to the activity of the instinct -- or whatever you want | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you. Like attracts like. QUESTION: Is there mutual activity in this attraction? ANSWER: Oh yes. QUESTION: On | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| indeed! And not only this kind of mutual activity, but also learning. You see, with the spirits | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| muster the strength to have inner or outer activity. The Sabbath, as you know, signifies among other | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good spiritually. Everything absorbed in the period of activity has to be assimilated in the period of | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this path in particular, is not an extra activity in your life that you simply add on | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| decision to take this path as some additional activity in your life, such as taking up some | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| sake, to do it. 29. THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL Greetings in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and their happiness. I have often mentioned that activity and passivity are two basic divine aspects in | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you have been endowed with, which corresponds to activity, and when should free will not be exercised | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| of God you need a great deal of activity and willpower. When the active forces are used | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| that a desire is behind it. Desire means activity. You may have right desires: going on a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| could only be changed by a different inner activity, there is a pressure and an inner pushing | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| this condition but the symptoms of their misapplied activity must show by their diminished health, strength, and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| inner resistances and for that you do need activity, although of a different kind, running on different | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| different tracks, so to speak. But you need activity and strength of will nevertheless. The passivity is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| you and/or your group would start a new activity. Whenever a friend has a problem and needs | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| way. It will strengthen all of you. Such activity is another form of knocking in order to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| advice to show you the way. Such an activity will bring the friends in the group closer | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| that will definitely have effect. This most creative activity will strengthen your mind, even if it does | 36 PRAYER |
| overcoming your self-will is the right kind of activity. You use the wrong kind whenever you struggle | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| the active forces is not disharmonious in his activity, as an unpurified human being would be with | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| in his own way, a specialist in his activity, which excludes the possibility of a disharmonious overemphasis | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| active pressure, either positive or negative. It needs activity. In the purified state, the will would manifest | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| used for wrong purposes. Courage cannot exist without activity; courage appears in a spirit of surging ahead | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| being, as well as for self-revelation, requires inner activity and alertness. But since people are often tempted | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| are often tempted into inner inactivity, while outer activity may be all the stronger as an overcompensation | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| way: The sphere is the result of your activity. The activity may also be an unconscious one | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| sphere is the result of your activity. The activity may also be an unconscious one. It is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| also be an unconscious one. It is the activity of your soul. The aura is the product | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| are. The spiritual sphere you build with your activity can be seen by very few clairvoyants, unless | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| this is a great joy. Learn this healthy activity. Become strong in it and meet life as | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in the three groups. When you resume your activity in the fall, the first time meet jointly | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| In other words, if a man rejects decision-making activity, everything that is part of the active life | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| manifests as creativity, growth, building, forward movement, search, activity, the outgoing quality necessary to find the other | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| and concepts is an utterly constructive and strengthening activity. But feeling that because you are responsible for | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| and vice versa. This applies not only to activity and passivity, but also to other trends that | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the Fall, brings several factors to our attention. Activity, as such, is not wrong for a woman | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a repressed passive current, where an unhealthy, compulsive activity is superimposed. Both sexes have been afflicted by | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a symbol. Now, Eve symbolizes the idea that activity becomes destructive if not allowed to function openly | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| present before the Fall. If before the Fall activity was present in the woman and passivity in | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personality in each sex. People merely regarded Eve's activity as wrong and then concluded that activity as | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Eve's activity as wrong and then concluded that activity as such is damaging for womanhood. The symbolic | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one of many interpretations. It exclusively referred to activity and passivity. Many other interpretations of this symbolism | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is that? ANSWER: This is not due to activity, but to other trends. Woman has always emphasized | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I know it is not shown clearly that activity and intellectual curiosity were suppressed in Eve, but | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| her more so by unfolding her intelligence, strength, activity, and creativity -- without rebellion. Something similar happened | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| is true that aggressive and hostile strength and activity in a woman will diminish her womanhood. But | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the suppression of her healthy strength, of her activity, and of her true creative powers. It is | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| by nature, but both manifest different aspects of activity and passivity. The woman's activity should enliven and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| different aspects of activity and passivity. The woman's activity should enliven and make vibrant her passivity in | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| passivity in the true and good sense. Her activity will prevent her passivity from becoming stagnant or | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| to an overactivity in the woman, a mischaneled activity that was not allowed to develop freely. It | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the state of being is entirely inactive; the activity, however, is of a different kind. This is | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life you may be suppressing the talent or activity that would afford your soul the maximum development | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| whenever you are not deeply interested in an activity. Background thoughts are weak, insofar as you are | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| life, such as choice of profession or main activity. It may be something small and subtle, not | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| prevail also during the time of most concentrated activity, because it is really an inner state and | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| anything. It automatically creates the right balance between activity and passivity. Those of you who have encountered | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| is a foot? Moving. Standing on. Progress. Again, activity, but of a different kind. Let us examine | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| different kind. Let us examine the difference in activity between hand and foot. The hand's activity is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in activity between hand and foot. The hand's activity is of a nature that may take place | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unimportant events, and your attitude to them. The activity of the feet, however, symbolizes movement of the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to speak. Needless to say that such major activity has an even greater effect on yourself and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| than the minor actions and reactions. The major activity establishes your place in life, your major events | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: Is it true that a specific psychic activity that is projected into the outside world is | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| one projects is relative to one's specific psychic activity and experience? ANSWER: Yes, that is true, but | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| or fear inevitably slows down the process of activity. Those who believe that God caused their suffering | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| value. Here again, a right combination of healthy activity and passivity is needed, as opposed to a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| needed, as opposed to a mixture of distorted activity and passivity. You cannot truly solve the seeming | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| frantically to the idealized self. The mere inner activity of holding on so frantically generates a pervasive | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| will lead a person to refrain from self-endangering activity. Yet when the distorted instinct of self- preservation | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| significance and translate them into meaning. Without this activity, it will be impossible to free yourself of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| enough to make prayer or any other constructive activity impossible. The God-image is not an actual concept | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outlet without aim or meaning, and the purposeful activity of reexperiencing all the feelings that once existed | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| there is no danger in such a constructive activity: it is the only way to alleviate the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| overactivity, haste, pressure, and compulsion. The truth combines activity and passivity in a relaxed way. The knowledge | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| adulthood with its responsibilities and what seems like activity to you. The struggle is now coming to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| awareness, you can reach a proper combination of activity and passivity, action and inaction. You are often | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| flow of life, approaching each day and each activity with zest. The more you are alienated from | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and productive. Only then will you find the activity that is in itself meaningful for you so | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| real self, we will know when to use activity and passivity, also action and inaction. Could you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| more passive, and vice versa. Harmonious blending of activity and passivity is not brought about by intellectual | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| your soul may be in a passive state. Activity and passivity are not necessarily manifested outwardly. But | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| it for the satisfaction you get from the activity itself? If you wish to find meaning in | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| however. Since realistic remedies are not sought, the activity of correcting life in fantasy removes aggression, hostility | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| better to create a little distance from this activity by observing the particular pattern of your daydreams | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| they are. You will thus turn a destructive activity into a constructive one, as long as it | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| the fire of life, living, loving, enthusiasm, healthy activity, spiritual endeavor, courage, conviction one stands up for | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| state of being, a healthy passivity. Both healthy activity -- fire -- and healthy passivity -- water | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| might, under certain circumstances, lead to a healthy activity. Let us say that someone is without ambition | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| by doing so, learning more about it. Such activity will relieve the strained atmosphere which produces his | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to remove that surplus of mental and voluntary activity that has caused the misuse of these faculties | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| their reason for being. In this kind of activity, prayer in the old sense becomes more and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| reap success. Healthy struggle is characterized by relaxed activity and the ability to accept defeat, by well-defined | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| myself when I wish to believe that any activity other than self-recognition can bring me spiritual development | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| does require effort, thought, the willingness to sacrifice, activity, and many other attitudes that are highly constructive | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| around the person indulging in such a destructive activity of the mind. It is, indeed, escapism. But | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for love is feminine. Her intelligence, courage and activity in many areas of life, the independence of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| herself completely, she has to artificially suppress her activity in order to falsely create the caricature of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| social, religious, or relating to any other human activity or attitude, from the viewpoint of ready-made rules | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| unfold in its full splendor. Whenever a life activity, no matter how useful, productive, or creative in | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| balance. In a balanced, integrated, full personality, one activity will enhance the other. Creative endeavor never suffers | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| This principle enters into all of the child's activity. The child's type of experience and the psychic | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| for companionship; the need for physical and mental activity; the need for sexual and creative expression; the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| friend or a group of people, or an activity or interest are supposed to furnish you with | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| deeply ponder the needs which lie behind the activity or relationship. It will then become possible to | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| and observation, and the measure of subsequent appropriate activity and treatment. For the yes-current to express in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| and mastery -- or to put it differently, activity and passivity -- are not only not mutually | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| creative forces establishes a perfect balance between the activity of the self -- fulfilling all the necessary | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| work for you. The proper balance is perfect activity in a relaxed, unstrained, stimulating, harmonious way. Perfect | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| desirable result, to lead a meaningful existence. Where activity should reign, passivity prevails. Where the ego must | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| to know when one and when the other activity is appropriate. Let us try to shed a | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| undetected way, you pursue even such a liberating activity as the pathwork -- whose aim is to | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| misconstrue the state of being as meaning no activity. But the activity is within the state of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of being as meaning no activity. But the activity is within the state of being. Activity and | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| the activity is within the state of being. Activity and passivity blend as one harmonious cosmic movement | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| commands from the intellect, but the spontaneous inner activity of the heart. When love exists, physical health | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| felt as finite and not as infinite, every activity has a beginning and an end. In finiteness | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| face it and give it up is an activity of the part in you that is available | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| it is most necessary to persevere. For purposeful activity the exact reverse is needed: Where the personality | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| incapable of relaxation. I get into too much activity. Even though it is outwardly constructive activity, it | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| much activity. Even though it is outwardly constructive activity, it is destructive to happiness. I would like | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| values, physical health and outer life, appearance and activity; there is also one's attitude to nature, art | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-THE BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY Greetings, my dearest friends. Be blessed | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| fearlessness to love, and a healthy balance between activity and passivity. All these form a comprehensive whole | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| is impossible to establish a healthy balance between activity and passivity. Let us look at this more | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| of this triad is the healthy balance between activity and passivity. Many of my friends have encountered | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| their self-search a strange and inexplicable distaste for activity and an equally strange and inexplicable hankering for | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the state of being, while the state of activity represents a chore, a difficulty you fear you | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| fragments. In the dualistic mode of experiencing life, activity and passivity appear as opposites. But in the | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| highest state of consciousness, the state of being, activity and passivity intermingle. It is equally true to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| true to say that the healthy state of activity is also passive, and that the healthy state | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| everyday life by reminding you that every healthy activity you undertake is relaxed, easy, and effortless, which | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| unthinkable. This applies to every healthy and purposeful activity in your life on the plane of existence | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| said so many times. In distortion and duality, activity appears as movement, passivity as nonmovement. Activity appears | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| duality, activity appears as movement, passivity as nonmovement. Activity appears to exert strain; passivity promises relief from | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| facet seems good, desirable; the other bad, undesirable. Activity is often experienced as undesirable because it requires | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| pay it, they must fear all the demands activity makes on them. The passive, static state then | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| helplessness. The passive state must imply helplessness when activity is rejected, feared, and avoided, for then helplessness | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| often find yourself in the position of avoiding activity out of the fear that you may not | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| exhausted you are, the more you shrink from activity, which seems an added strain to the exhausted | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and establish contact with the inner real self, activity can be peaceful and passivity can be regenerating | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| regenerating. When the real self is in charge, activity and passivity can meld as one unit, so | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| task is to choose healthful habits regarding the activity of the mind, so as to set the | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Until now we have concentrated on the mental activity involved in your search for your true self | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| requires more willpower, more meaningful mental work and activity. Now let us begin with your questions. QUESTION | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| power and pleasure of the real self. Every activity, no matter how mundane, is permeated by the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| wholly and fully to whatever you do. This activity of catching one's little hidden dishonesties is the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| be in peace, be in God! 163. MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY Greetings, my beloved friends. The | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| of life and your true identity. The mind's activity or lack of activity is the key here | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| true identity. The mind's activity or lack of activity is the key here: it is a subtle | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| from the point of view of your mind activity and specifically your pathwork, may best be described | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| in beauty. These opposites are the forces of activity and passivity -- the expanding and restricting principles | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| longer a cramping and shrinking, bit a relaxed activity that leads to fulfillment. The old way is | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| differentiate between those who rightfully dim their creative activity because they are justifiably afraid of the negative | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| women come across the identical patterns of false activity. On the one hand they find false aggression | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| can safely enrich yourself by and through your activity, without falsely feeling guilty about your healthy aggression | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| but a distortion of healthy femininity. The pulsating activity of the soul in the receptive state of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| your life is the outcome of your mental activity. What you do not like you will invariably | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| The same is true of your daily mental activity, which goes on unobserved, without critical evaluation, so | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the outer sense, but it combines an inner activity of the most pleasurable rhythm with an inner | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| comprehensive way, to help you to use this activity more effectively and meaningfully. To really understand the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| must again adopt a twofold approach: one is activity that asserts its desire to transform the self-defeating | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| distorted. Let us take the inner attitudes of activity and passivity. On the dualistic level these two | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| these other levels. Then the right blend of activity and passivity prevails in the psyche. The universal | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| desire and desirelessness; between involvement and detachment; between activity and passivity. When this balance becomes a steady | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| accepted for what it is now. The mental activity becomes so busy that it cannot attune to | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| alternate opening up and contracting occurs, the mental activity of the person is confused. Search and groping | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| This does not mean that there is no activity. The inner activity may be so intense that | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| mean that there is no activity. The inner activity may be so intense that the change wrought | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| is not a passive manifestation. It too, implies activity. On the other hand, if a person waits | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| come through. This can be noted in every activity or skill. First there is always effort. It | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| always most energized and relaxed -- provided their activity does not serve as an escape from the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| inner and outer -- is your creation. Spiritual activity then becomes an escape from psychological factors. But | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| are possible. Let me list a few. Sexual activity can be such a shortcut. In sexual experience | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| of faith, doubt must awaken you into mental activity. When you tend to doubt in the destructive | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| to actively express its messages in life. Thus activity and passivity need to be reversed. Your mind | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| inner level where you need a balance between activity and rest. When either goes out of balance | 228 BALANCE |
| A person cannot truly be active unless that activity contains also the receptive state of mind; the | 228 BALANCE |
| effortless effort. It is not a strained effort. Activity is strained, tiring and effortful only if it | 228 BALANCE |
| principle, it creates a stagnant deadening state. The activity and movement contained within the receptive state makes | 228 BALANCE |
| approach to life and to its areas of activity in the human community. You can imagine that | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| is done for effect: either directly through the activity or to attain power and money for the | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| can, regardless of others' opinions, so that the activity fulfills its innate purpose. Or it may mean | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| is just as important to do every daily activity in the spirit of being, not appearance. When | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| to find a new pathway to your mind's activity. The next step is the most crucial one | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| to the second point: What should be your activity or attitude so you can attain this state | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| in you, even if this means temporarily more activity than receptivity. In the active movement of your | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| relaxing. Inertia is believed to be restful, while activity is believed to be exhausting. This illusion is | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| swing into a new balance. The overemphasis on activity now is the balance that you need in | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| your life to this. Giving to God means activity, and at times even pushing through the inertia | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| wants to keep you from being active. The activity may be directed to many areas, apart from | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| will for evil to have its sphere of activity and influence, for only in this way can | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to be more autonomous and active. Genuine positive activity and self-affirmation renders you sufficiently strong and resilient | 254 SURRENDER |
| entirely negative. Through their sphere of influence and activity they affect events, which then conspire to bring | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |